Thirteenth cheque for extraordinary deliver

Having misfired for almost two decades, it is crystal clear that the strategy designed to accelerate student learning outcomes needs a comprehensive review if not an overhaul. It seems the system is now experiencing some planning fatigue where planning is made for purposes of compliance and not for achieving outcomes.

Fatigue or compliance is when a system goes on as usual when past experience has shown that it won’t work.

This is a case of flogging a dead horse. If our schools are to serve students better, there is need to draw lessons from experience and borrow ideas from the from successful and effective systems. Rachel Curtis and Elizabeth City offers the rubric for effective education planning. They say, “the key rubric is for the strategy to be focused on the instructional core, focused on few things that are coherent and synergistic, and balanced in solving of problems and pursuit of the system’s vision.”

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Inspect the voters' roll!

The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...

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